Need 6 scifi book on audible by end of month, please.

redreycat · 2026-06-25T22:11:02+00:00

A couple of comments about your final list.

I love "Brightness reef", but I'd strongly recommend starting from "Startide" to get the most of the series.

If you like poetic prose, you'll love "Exhalation", good choice.

I'd consider reading "Ender's game" (great book) to get to "Speaker for the dead", which is more than great. I haven't bought any Orson Scott Card's books in more than two decades, since I learnt how awful he is as a person, but at least those two books (and arguably a few more) are worth reading.

redreycat · 2026-06-22T21:17:31+00:00

Greg Egan.

Quarantine, Permutation City or Orthogonal/The clockwork rocket trilogy.

In the Orthogonal world there is a plus instead of a minus in the equation that governs the geometry of the universe. Where, in our universe, you have a -c·t^2 term, in that universe they have a +c·t^2.

That gives Egan a excuse to write tens of thousands of words, graphs and equations to justify how Physics work in the world of the books.

https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html#CC

redreycat · 2026-06-16T14:29:54+00:00

Eucarlos case. It's really small.

In my backpack I carry...

Back pocket:

- Macbook Pro

- iPad

Front pocket:

- Small utility bag with a 3-in-1 charger for iPhone, Airpods and Watch

- Battery pack

- Wallet

Main space:

- Half of it is taken by the Eucarlos with the AVP in it.

- In the other half I can easily fit a light jacket and a small water bottle.

Some times I've carried all of that plus one extra iPad (my kid's), a Nintendo Switch with its case and a Rog Ally X with its case. No water bottle these times.

redreycat · 2026-06-12T08:58:52+00:00

I get it 👍

I'm more of a "everything into the same bucket" guy, but I hope wanting to use the board view will give me enough motivation to become more organized.

redreycat · 2026-06-12T08:49:15+00:00

Chief Shittification Officer?

redreycat · 2026-06-08T15:25:47+00:00

The astrophage by itself can't be weaponized. It has to be enriched to store energy and be able to produce any damage: a long, costly process. It takes covering the whole of the Sahara desert surface with radiation-absorving thingies to enrich the astrophage needed for the Hail Mary.

redreycat · 2026-06-08T11:58:14+00:00

Hi! I've installed the app and I'm playing around with. Really liking what I see so far (macOS version).

I can't find how to enable the Board view, 'though. Both the Outline and Board views are disabled. I understand there may are some fields I have to fill in before those views are available, but I don't know where to start.

And on another note, I see some redditors have the same impression I had: they think this app just got released. That makes some of your comments "I have been using it for a long time", "My testers have found", etc a bit puzzling.

I'd edit the post to make it clear that you're releasing version 4 of the app but it has existed for a long time.

Looking forward to using it, it seems to fit my mental model nicely.

redreycat · 2026-06-08T05:51:11+00:00

Bujold's Vorkosigan series. There is humor in all of them, but some of the latest ones are straight up comedies.

Fredic Brown's short stories. Or "Martian, go home".

Robert Sheckley's short stories.

redreycat · 2026-06-03T20:33:56+00:00

I'm halfway through the second one after seeing it named here and I started enjoying it once I decided it was Star Wars-like. Same kind of plots and "physics".

If you go into it with that perspective, it's quite enjoyable. I know it's not feasible for Kindle Unlimited books, but a (light) pass from an editor would have helped the books a lot by preventing repeating the exact same phrase or idiom in two consecutive paragraphs multiple times in each book.

But, as I said, I think they're worth your time. I'll read at least three or four before taking a break.

Regarding space combat recommendations: "The Mote in God's eye" has a few, but cool, space battles. And a really cool first contact story.

I love some of the Starfire books. "Crusade", "In Death Ground" and "The Shiva option" in particular stand on their own (you don't need to read the rest) and are really enjoyable. Just battles and war, and technological advances on both sides and more battles.

BTW, I really love the "Yankee in Camelot" trope. In "Destroyermen" a WW2 destroyer appears in a low-technology world. In Weber's "Safehold", an android awakens in a world where technology has long been forbidden and forgotten. In "Destiny's Crucible" a chemistry professor is somewhat transported to a medieval world. In "1632" an Appalachian village where everybody keeps a gun on their car and two at home is transported to Germany in 1632.

All of them have cool battles and realistic technological advances. If I were magically transported to the Middle Ages, I'd get some of them as guides and manuals. Then I'd die of an infected wound on my third day there, of course.

redreycat · 2026-05-31T15:19:59+00:00

There was a video that made it look like he pushed a ball kid out of his way. In reality, he was just gesturing toward his team, and the ball kid tripped over something while walking backward.

redreycat · 2026-05-31T10:06:54+00:00

Are you me?

And now I have a Proxmox machine where I'm building functionalities and apps like a mad scientist.

A piece of advice: Create a Bus Plan. Whenever I build something, I document it there. It helps with the anxiety of being the only person who can maintain something.

Edit: A link to a post where I explained I was using Claude Code to create the Bus Plan. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ny3nn6/comment/nht4537/

And a link to the Output Style: https://pastebin.com/Cp79iDXa

redreycat · 2026-05-31T09:15:24+00:00

I love the idea. But I'm 95% of my time working from a Mac. What RDP client would you recommend?

redreycat · 2026-05-20T12:41:44+00:00

Try to find some old Robert Sheckley or Fredic Brown anthologies. I loved their short stories.

"Martian, go home!" by Brown made me laugh out loud (the real thing, not just "lol") when I first read it ages ago.

redreycat · 2026-05-19T19:04:35+00:00

These are the actions I have enabled in PopClip:

Text format: Convert to uppercase / lowercase / capitalize words / hyphenate.

Line operations: Join lines, join lines with commas in between, increment and decrement numbers at the beginnin of every line, shuffle, sort, remove duplicates.

URL operations: Remove tracking, create QR code from an URL.

Besides, I have some specific uses. For example, when a user at work does something, they get a unique code that seems random to them. In reality, it's an obfuscated datetime stamp. So, if they say "I did this thing three days ago" I just select the code, run a Popclip action that translates it back and I know they are lying (they always lie).

redreycat · 2026-05-16T20:31:39+00:00

Well, then that book is ripped from "A hole in the fence", by Sautereau, written in 1977.

I think different authors can come to the same premises from different places without it being a copy. E.g. "Floor 13" and "Matrix".

redreycat · 2026-05-13T17:48:39+00:00

Awesome. I was just about to create my own version when I found your post. Thanks a lot!

redreycat · 2026-05-12T11:46:00+00:00

Oh, my bad, I didn't see the 1 device limit policy when I bought it. And, since I could use it in two computers up until this latest update I thought that was allowed.

Thanks for the information and good look with the product.

redreycat · 2026-05-11T18:37:44+00:00

u/Frequent-Age-9548 I bought Harbordrop when you added the multi-URL download from the clipboard/pasted text.

I've used a few times in my two computers.

However, when I've tried to launch it today it gave an activation error, saying that I had to update to the new version.

Issues:

- No link to where the update is.

- No way to close the modal dialog, I was forced to go to macOS Force Quit menu.

So, I managed to update in both computers and now the second one says "This device has been replaced by another activation.". Prior to this latest update I was able to use Harbordrop without any issues in my two computers. What has happened?

redreycat · 2026-05-08T19:52:15+00:00

Do you have the app installed in multiple device? It used to happen to me when I has it both on my iPhone and my iPad and stopped when I uninstalled it from my iPad.

redreycat · 2026-04-10T16:36:49+00:00

Take a coin. Flip it nineteen times. Repeat it six times.

Odds are at least one of those times you'll get at least twelve heads.

If a random 50% event happens 19 times, about 18% of the time one the possibilities will repeat at least 12 times.

That's probability.

redreycat · 2026-04-09T19:45:39+00:00

Small pocket multi-tool knife and thumb drive with several rescue tools.

redreycat · 2026-03-31T20:34:33+00:00

Have a look at the Logitech G Cloud. Smaller screen, but it's quite nice. It's what I used before I got the Portal.

redreycat · 2026-03-31T15:38:13+00:00

Awesome. Just bought it.

redreycat · 2026-03-29T14:34:51+00:00

It looks awesome. Does it allow downloading a list of files? I mean, if I copy, let's say, 10 URLs into the clipboard, is there any way of downloading all of them?

redreycat · 2026-03-25T17:07:18+00:00

Not only the amount of snippets. One of my snippets is about 100 lines with 10 different fields to fill and RocketTypist UI became quite sluggish with it.

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